Job Title: Delivery Operations Manager
Location: Warminster, Wiltshire
Compensation: £53,300 - £55,000 Dependent on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF68464
Lead the Future of Defence Training Excellence
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Delivery Operations Manager at Warminster, near Salisbury, Wiltshire.
The Role
As a Delivery Operations Manager, you’ll be at the heart of planning and executing high-level military training exercises that shape the future of defence readiness. This is a senior leadership role where your coordination and operational expertise will directly impact national defence capabilities, customer satisfaction, and Babcock’s reputation for excellence in training delivery.
Day-to-day you’ll be required to:
• Lead the planning and coordination of large-scale military training events across UK and European locations
• Refine and manage realistic operational environments and scenarios to support Corps, Divisional, and Brigade-level exercises
• Oversee simulation setup and ensure all exercise components align with design requirements
• Manage specialist contributors and ensure scenario content meets quality and coherence standards
• Act as the principal on-site manager during live exercises, including extended hours and occasional shift work
The role is based onsite at Warminster, and the set working times are 37 hours per week. You’ll occasionally be required to work extended hours during training exercises, including weekends (up to approximately three periods per year).
Essential experience of the Delivery Operations Manager:
• Worked in a collective training environment
• Experience in harnessing and optimising information technology to enhance productivity
• Experience of creating and managing action plans
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office packages
• Comprehensive understanding of geopolitical issues
Qualifications for the Delivery Operations Manager:
• Educated to GCSE level or equivalent (inclusive of Maths & English)
• Full UK Driving Licence
• Military Staff Training
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
What we offer
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
- Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
- ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
- Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Closing date: 20/10/2025